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CATEGORY: HISTORY (31 min)
** When is it time to call in the state? ([link removed])
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How much should the state be involved in solving family problems?
You might say “very little.” But with marriage and birthrates plummeting . . . and American families hurting economically . . . shouldn’t the government do something?
Andy Smarick tackles this thorny question ([link removed]) in National Affairs.
“Today's conservatives find themselves in a bind,” he writes. “They want to help families, but they also worry about continuing America's dangerous pattern of centralizing power, enervating state and local governments, and robbing civil-society bodies of their purpose.”
Surveying the past century, Smarick primarily sees the cancerous growth ([link removed]) of the administrative state as it seeks to solve social and familial ills.
But the Catholic principle of subsidiarity ([link removed]) offers much wisdom in understanding where we went wrong . . .
. . . and what policies might best help American families today.
You should check out the “six governing rules of thumb” derived from subsidiarity right here ([link removed]) .
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CATEGORY: CULTURE (5 min)
** Religion is coming back into politics ([link removed])
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No, Declan Leary is not fretting that the Dobbs ruling has made America theocratic again . . .
But he is going to bat ([link removed]) for conservative luminary L. Brent Bozell, who today is being derided in liberal media as a “theocon” and “the true godfather of a revanchist right.”
Reconsidering Bozell’s writings, Leary finds a writer who prophesied the collapse of conservative fusionism . . . and who offers a powerful defense of religious politics.
Does that offend your classical liberal sensibilities?
Wake up ([link removed]) , Leary writes. The battle lines of the post-Roe struggle are unavoidably religious . . . on both sides.
And the sooner you realize that—and the sooner you read Brent Bozell—the better prepared for the present struggle you will be.
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The Danger of Mere Tolerance ([link removed])
via The Texas Horn
Not Far Enough ([link removed]) via The Lone Conservative
CATEGORY: CONSERVATIVE HISTORY (18 min)
** Double Suicide ([link removed])
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Let’s dip back into the Modern Age archives ([link removed]) where Daniel McCarthy critically examines two books.
Both are entitled The Suicide of the West, and both are written by major National Review writers. Both assess the decline of Western geopolitical power and civilization.
But over half a century separates these two texts, and they offer very different—perhaps even conflicting—understandings of liberalism and the place of “tribal” politics.
“Each Suicide,” McCarthy writes, “is a specimen of a significant kind of right-wing thought, perhaps the two most significant kinds struggling for dominance today . . . [and thus] each book merits critical examination in search of a better understanding of—and perhaps an escape from—the predicament of our time.”
Whose diagnosis is more persuasive to you? McCarthy offers a clear answer. Read it here ([link removed]) and see if you agree.
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Thought of the Day:
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“The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.”
—William F. Buckley
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